The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The deception that lurks in our data-driven world
Add it all up, and you have a significant problem in the way our society produces knowledge.
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The hidden underpinnings of the world were revealed only when they were gone.
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We’ve deceived ourselves into thinking data is a camera, but it’s really an engine. Capturing data about something changes the way that something works. Even the mere collection of stats is not a neutral act, but a way of reshaping the thing itself.
Why Every Organization Needs a Chief of Staff Like This One
I had only 24 hours in the day, but 35 hours’ worth of issues coming at me each day that required decisions on my part. What I needed from my staff was for them to buy me time on my schedule, freeing up white space so I could focus on strategic thinking and managing critical relationships. And more than any one person, my Chief of Staff kept me constantly focused on spending my time where it counted most so that I wasn’t the limiting factor in pushing our organization forward.
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corpkit: a tool for investigating text
corpkit is a tool for doing corpus linguistics. It does a lot of the usual things, like parsing, concordancing and keywording, but also extends their potential significantly: you can concordance by searching for combinations of lexical and grammatical features, and can do keywording of lemmas, of subcorpora compared to corpora, or of words in certain positions within clauses.
Source: U.S. Department of State-USAID FY 2014–2017 Joint Strategic Plan
CIA goes live with new cyber directorate, massive internal reorganization
The DDI’s formation implies that the CIA is increasingly bent on securing 21st century relevance on the overall American spying landscape, where other agencies — namely the cyber- and electronic-surveillance-focused National Security Agency (NSA) — have emerged as dominant shapers of U.S. intelligence policy.
The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlim Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money covers the Kremlin's methods and motives as they spread the influence modern Russia, rightly called a mafia state. The concept of “Operations Psychological”, as defined by Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, plays a prominent role in these efforts. The impatient will want to skip to the Recommendations section on page 40; the simple, clear prescriptions may motivate paging back to understand more of the thinking behind them. Arab Spring has come and gone, ISIS is what it is, and the true challenge for the west in the 21st century is this next evolution of a network threat, an area in which the Russians vastly outperform the U.S.
It's Been 50 Years Since the Biggest US-Backed Genocide You've Never Heard Of
As many as 1 million people were killed by Indonesia's Cold War regime—and we still don't know the full story of our government's involvement.
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